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Artist Joel Harris has posted a selection of his artworks spanning his entire life starting with crayon masterpieces from age 5, and proceeding through his Mad Magazine phase, cartooning phase, Marine Corps phase, European travel phase, and culminating with a radically new style of art that he evolved after he: “Sold everything I owned and…

A: “By converting as wide a range of experience into conscious thought.” – novelist Andre Malraux Talk about succinct! Malraux captures the theme of The Lifelong Activist in two sentences. And he’s not even the first smart French novelist to do so: “regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois, so that you may…

I’m at the age (almost 50!) when many people start to codger, i.e., turn into someone with fixed ideas and narrowed perceptions. A lot of people do it earlier, and some people never do it, remaining youthful until they drop. I’m hoping for that last outcome, and I think I’ll get there, mainly because I…

As I always suspected: “LONDON (Reuters) – Housework might be bad for your health, according to a study suggesting that tidying up as little as once a week with common cleaning sprays and air fresheners could raise the risk of asthma in adults… “Exposure to such cleaning materials even just once a week could account…

Recently, I have been very inspired by a video of “last lecture” given by a professor at Carnegie Mellon University. Last Lectures typically involve a retiring professor who condenses his or her decades of accumulated wisdom and experience into one final blockbuster talk, but this one is different because the professor, Randy Pausch, is only…

Wired magazine founder Kevin Kelly writes here about the “countdown clock” he created on his computer to remind him of how much (or, more to the point, how little) time he has left on the planet and that he shouldn’t waste any. He’s 55 years old, he says, so anticipates he’s got about 8,500 days…

From Cary Tennis, Salon.com’s advice columnist : “Anyway, that sort of reminds me about how hard it is to make social change when many of us feel unrepresented by the major political parties, do not belong to labor unions and must figure out for ourselves how to make activism a part of our complicated little…

Written in response to this article about how women struggle to balance their spouse/parent/household manager/career roles. A lot of my students and coaching clients (and not just the women) are in this predicament. They blame themselves for being underachievers, when what they should be doing is congratulating themselves on their ability to multitask and meet…

The act of naming something is incredibly powerful, since naming not only defines a phenomenon but can render it visible. Think how hard it would be to fight for justice if we didn’t have the words “racism” and “sexism” in our vocabulary, and the corresponding concepts as part of our world view. I just found…

Forget about the iPhone – the news that Google is opening its first office in sub-Saharan Africa is truly thrilling. My foster kids are from Sudan, and I have many other personal and professional connections to the region: I have opined many times that the information revolution is going to spur a vast amount of…